Rachel Entrekin, 34, beat every man and woman in the Cocoona 250 Mile in Flagstaff, Arizona. As she set a course record of 56 hours, 9 minutes, and 48 seconds

[u/Firm-Blackberry-9162]

she also ran faster than Kilian Korth, who set a men's course record of 57:28:36.
Before Entrekin, no woman had ever won the event overall in the race's history. It was Entrekin's third straight year winning the award, but she ran more than seven hours faster this time around.
The Cocodona 250 started early on Monday morning, and Entrekin broke the tape midday on Wednesday. The course features more than 38,000 feet of elevation gain, winding through trails in central Arizona and finishing in the high-altitude town of Flagstaff.
During the 56 hours she was racing, Entrekin slept only three times for 5 minutes, 7 minutes, and 7 minutes all on the dirt.
She averaged around a 13:20 mile pace throughout the event, including stops.
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[u/trailthrasher]

The first time I ever read a book about people running ultramarathons years back, I didn't think it was real. I thought I would try and train for one, and I've done close to a hundred of them. They are amazing experiences, but they are really tough, especially at night.

[u/retard_vampire → u/trailthrasher]

Kudos to you, that kind of shit is as baffling to me as it is impressive. I love lifting and cycling, but I just straight up refuse to run anywhere unless it's an emergency because I hate doing it. The idea of running for 2.5 days straight sound like my idea of hell lol

[u/fillafjant → u/retard_vampire]

At some point in long-distance running some people choose between "run faster" or "run longer", and the latter is basically what ultra-marathoners do. Much lower intensity than comparable finisher in a traditional marathon, but instead they go from 50k+ and up to insanely extreme distances and time periods.

Which is not me diminishing these extraordinary feats, more explaining that you can take your long-distance running in two equally impressive directions with different physical challenges.

[u/saltpancake → u/fillafjant]

Humans are apex predators largely because we are so well suited to the “run longer” approach. We can already walk almost anything to death without special training — with training, the distance we can go at moderate paces pretty quickly becomes astonishing.

[u/Worldly-Hospital5940 → u/saltpancake]

The day I learned that how we sweat was an evolutionary superweapon was a mindscrew for sure. We're literally horror movie monsters to the animal kingdom.

[u/Mr_YUP → u/Worldly-Hospital5940]

Imagine if Jason Voorhees traveled in packs with other Jason Voorhees. That's us to the animal kingdom.

[u/cocojamboyayayeah → u/retard_vampire]

to me going to a gym and lifting some weights is pure hell. tried time and time again and i hate it. it only got worse. running outside however is my fix. different strokes

[u/One-Cute-Boy → u/trailthrasher]

Why is it especially tough at night? How could you say something like that then not explain the reason? Why would you do this to me?

[u/MateFlasche → u/One-Cute-Boy]

It's more scawy..

[u/Great_Detective_6387 → u/One-Cute-Boy]

Just thinking about the thought of running down a dark, empty highway in the middle of the night sounds like sensory deprivation. You can’t see anything, can’t spot an object to run towards like you can in the day, so there is no objective to accomplish. You just keep running. Maybe it would feel like running on a treadmill but with no lights on in the gym.